The wing provided host station support functions primarily for SAC B/RB-36 Peacemaker, B-47 Stratojet, B-52 Stratofortess, & KC-97 Tanker Wing and Support Elements deployed to Upper Heyford duringOperation Reflex deployments from United States bases. In addition to its assigned units, the 1st Aviation Field Depot Squadron (later 1st Aviation Depot Squadron) and the 11th Aviation Depot Squadron (later 11th Munitions Maintenance Squadron), which were assigned to 7th AD and attached to the wing and were responsible for the control of nuclear weapons ("special weapons") at Upper Heyford.
It was inactivated in 1965 and replaced by USAFE's7514th Combat Support Group (CSG) as the host base operating unit when SAC turned control over Upper Heyford to theUnited States Air Forces in Europe.[1] Detachment 1, 98th Strategic Wing assumed the SAC mission.
^The transfer to SAC required that the group be renumbered into the block reserved for SAC as required by AF Manual 26-2.
^Third Air Force replaced the 3d Air Division as the USAFE headquarters for the United KingdomMaurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961].Air Force Combat Units of World War II(PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. pp. 379–380,458–459.ISBN0-912799-02-1. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 15 January 2021.
^Until 18 December 1955, the station name was Upper Heyford RAF, Fletcher, p. 131
Willard, TSG Richard R. (1988) [1968].Location of United States Military Units in the United Kingdom, 16 July 1948 – 31 December 1967. USAF Air Station, South Ruislip, United Kingdom: Historical Division, Office of Information, Third Air Force.LCCN68061579.
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